Subj : Re: U64 + BBS SUCCESS
To   : Bucko
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Thu Sep 26 2024 16:33:03

 > The Image network is not FTN compatible. If anyone remembers Frank
 > from SCINet he was going to write a go between to do just that take
 > the FTN packages and convert them to something Image could read, and
 > vice versa.. Only issue with FTN networks and the C64 unless you are
 > running at U64 at 48mhz you will find the message packages are just to
 > large to process. Running on a Lt Kernal system the Machine is running
 > at 1mhz. The HD is fast but the machine is not. When I was running the
 > NISSA network back in the early 90's as Administrator, we had a break
 > down of one of the legs of the network (Back then the network ran from
 > BBS to BBS not a HUB style network like we have now) and I got a 600+
 > block file of message base posts. That is equal to just about a full
 > 1541 disk which is 330k it took 32 hours to process the file thus
 > rendering the BBS useless as the BBS processes live and not in the
 > background. I have had times when I would get 5 meg message packages
 > in Fido and on my PC it takes seconds to process it with Mystic. Even
 > at 48mhz that would take probably a couple of hours to process.

Yeah, that's a huge blocker for sure. I guess if you are running a C64
BBS, it makes sense things aren't going to work that way. Small
storage, even if it's an emulated 1581, and no multi-tasking. Even if you
set a max number of messages per echo, the processing would be
problematic.   

How is NISSA running these days? 

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